There are thousands of free online teaching apps for teachers . These innovative education apps can be used cost-effectively with learners from around the world to meet a growing demand for online courses and online teaching. Teaching online nowadays is a real possibility thanks to these new teaching apps.
Here are the best free online teaching apps for teachers.
Educaciones
This is a unique take on a mobile whiteboard program. It makes teachers’ lives simpler, much like the others we’ve mentioned. It assists teachers and educators in creating student-friendly tutorials.
With features that assist you with animation, diagrams, and other visual aids, the icing on the cake is that you can store and upload your videos online.
Features of Educaciones
- Import photos and videos
- Easy content sharing
- Cloud sync and more
Evernote
Evernote is a note-taking program that can be used by both teachers and students. There are several applications. It serves as a planner, assisting teachers in sticking to their schedules and conserving paper.
In addition, Evernote can be used to build and exchange study materials. Projects and tasks may be exchanged as well. It aids in the storage of notes and records, as well as the development of an archive of the documents so that teachers can access them.
Features of Evernote
- Availability of offline notes
- Large storage capacity
- Image recognition
- Full-time support and more
TeacherKit
Many teachers struggle as they move their classes online, and this is largely due to the changes that come with the transition. Teacherkit is a software program that enables teachers to automate repetitive tasks such as taking attendance, documenting grades, and so on.
It allows you to keep track of students’ progress and add behavior notes so you can concentrate on the important things.
Features of TeacherKit
- Digital classroom tools
- Behavior notes for students
- Grading system and reports
- Progress reports and more
Animoto
Animoto is a great tool for teachers to use to make instructional videos and other presentations. When teachers take their lessons online, they face the challenge of engaging students and keeping them interested.
Animoto is a great tool for this, as it allows you to make presentations with photographs, videos, and sound clips.
Features of Animoto
- High-quality videos
- Customizations
- Wide variety of fonts
- Storyboard templates and more
Socrative
Socrative is a learning evaluation tool and an instructional app. It aids in the simplification of grades and reports. This program for teachers helps to make classes fun and monitor student participation with engaging tests, evaluations, polls, and other features.
Features of Socrative
- Easy to use classroom tools
- 50 students allowed per classroom (150 students in the premium subscription)
- Assessments and results
- Content sharing
SeeSaw
It’s an educational app that’s all about convenience and comfort. It facilitates collaboration and provides teachers with a good picture of where their students are on the learning curve.
Seesaw is a boo with advanced resources to assess students’ comprehension and skills, reports that support teachers, and a forum for connecting with families.
Features of SeeSaw
- Rich communication tools
- Tools to analyze student learning
- Reports
- Analytics and more
Tether
The app uses your phone’s internet link to connect to the internet.
It is one of the few services that allow you to connect not only from Blackberry or Android but also from an iPhone, without voiding the Apple device’s warranty or paying extra fees to your service pro.
It’s more expensive than an app like FoxFi, and there’s no free or trial edition, but $29/year ($2.49/mo) is still a great deal for teachers who have an iPhone and need a backup way to stay connected to the Internet.
Remember to keep an eye on your data use so you don’t get charged extra at the end of the month for exceeding your quota.
Staying linked during the semester is important when teaching online. You can stay in touch with online students while still keeping up with grading their assignments by using this app for teaching. If you’re going to teach online and
have a smartphone, make the most of it because it could be the only thing you have.
FoxFi
The coolest aspect of FoxFi is that it can quickly transform multiple Android phones (depending on the manufacturer) into a Wi-Fi hotspot, allowing other devices (such as laptops, tablets, and smartphones) to piggyback or “tether” off of it. It also helps you to connect to your phone using Bluetooth or a USB cable.
I was online and logging into my course from my laptop in less than five minutes after downloading the FoxFi app. One caveat: as cool as the instant “hotspot” functionality is, it drains the battery quickly.
I’ve used FoxFi in hotspot mode when charging my tablet, and it always steadily drains the battery until it shuts down. Use FoxFi’s USB link option instead if you need to be online for more than 30 minutes.
Connecting your phone to the Internet via USB cable only allows you to connect your laptop to the Internet (not all of your other mobile devices), but it keeps your Android charged and allows you to remain productive for as long as you need…or until your phone’s data plan expires, whatever comes first.
TooNoisy
It was created to detect ambient noises and can be used in a classroom with both an Android computer and an iPhone.
When the above noise level is exceeded, this app emits a beep. The main purpose of this app is for students to become more conscious of how to behave and control their behaviour.
It also protects students from being disciplined by a teacher or other educational representative if they do not obey the guidelines. It is available on both ioS and Android.
AnswerGarden
Teachers may use this free tool to ask their students a question that can be answered in a single word or phrase. Responses are collected through a web connection, QR code, or AnswerGarden’s iOS app, and a word cloud appears on the display screen. The most frequently submitted terms would be the highest in the cloud. The most frequently submitted terms would be the highest in the cloud.
This is a great tool to use in the classroom for brainstorming activities with a community.
Slido
Students may use Slido to send questions using a standard web browser and a special event code.
Other participants will upvote questions that appear on the presenter’s screen, pushing the most famous questions to the top. The presenter or teacher will delete a question from the queue until it has been answered. Audience polling with multiple-choice and word cloud options is also available via Slido.
Zoom
Zoom is probably the most popular online software in the market for holding meetings, classes and online get-togethers, especially since the start of the pandemic.
Zoom offers the following to their users:
- Chat function to chat with your whole class or individual students
- Breakout rooms to separate students into groups for discussions
- Share screen function to share your screen or allow students to share their screen
- A built-in whiteboard with text and drawing features to share with your students.
The free version allows up to 100 participants, unlimited one-on-one meetings but a limit of only 40 minutes for group meetings.
Zoom is a great option for teachers who need a platform to teach their students since this app is used worldwide and most people are comfortable and familiar with its functions.
Google Meet
Google Meet for teachers is another popular software application for online tutors, virtual teachers and anyone conducting classes online because of its integration with Google’s suite of other apps like Google Classroom and Google Drive.
Google Meet offers the following free options for its users:
- Share screen to your students
- Adjust your layouts
- Group classes up to 1 hour
- Chat with students in the chatbox
- And other normal features of a virtual video conferencing platform
Anyone with a Google account can create a video meeting or virtual class of up to 100 students (participants) and meet up to 60 minutes for free.
If you are conducting one-on-one tutoring classes, you can spend up to 24 hours together (but why would you?!).
GoToMeeting
GoToMeeting, as stated on their website, puts the “class in online classes.”
They are an up-and-coming competitor to some of the larger video platforms because of how they gear their functions to suit teachers and students in an online class.
With their free account, you can expect:
- Personal URLs for students to join the class
- Instant messaging, file sharing & screen sharing
- Powerful mobile capabilities for students
- Clean and simple interface with powerful functions
Unfortunately, their free version is quite limiting but it will allow you 40-minute classes/meetings but with only up to 3 participants.
GoToMeeting free would be perfect for independent tutors who have 1-3 students and classes under 40 minutes.
Boom Cards
Boom Cards are self-checking interactive activities that give students real-time feedback on their responses.
Here’s how they work:
- You create the Boom Cards in advance or use pre-created decks from other teachers
- You use the fast play option (for free) and get a link to send to students
- Your students are shown one question at a time and given real-time feedback on their answer
- They can correct themselves or simply discard the card
- You can also differentiate instruction with Boom Cards and assign certain cards to certain students
You can only use the fast play option with the free version and you will not be able to track progress but you can upgrade at any time under different price packages.
I love the idea of Boom Cards for a creative way to assess students where they won’t even realize they are learning!
Nearpod
Nearpod allows teachers to make any lesson interactive. Take those boring worksheets and make them fun and engaging.
Or, pull in videos and other interactive content into your Nearpod lesson.
Let’s check out how it works:
- Jump over to Nearpod and create a free account.
- Browse Nearpod’s thousands of lessons in the Nearpod Library or create your own.
- Once you create your own lesson you just add slides like you would in any presentation software.
- The difference is that instead of just adding text or images (which you still can), nearpod has lots of other fun options like quizzes, polls, and games to make it fun.
- You give your students a code to enter and then you are ready to go!
The difference between Nearpod’s free and paid version is the amount of storage you get and the number of students that can join at one time.
Conclusion
There is an abundance of applications for mobile devices available which make the act of learning both fun and more interactive. It’s easy to use these tools to teach or give presentations for today’s generation of students.